Sendmail -- local mail problems

[System Administrator]

I am having problems on with locally generated mail on a box (production)
that was just updated to 4.8-RELEASE from 4.62

After trying all manor of cures noted by others here and in google I have
managed to get past the permission denied messages in the system log, but
not in maillog.  I now have all of today's local form submissions and my
command line test mails backing up in "clientmqueue".

A test such as:

mail -v root
Subject: test
test
.
EOT
root... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
root... Deferred: Permission denied


results in maillog:

Apr  8 16:08:19 secure01 sendmail[36300]: h38N8JEM036300: to=root,
ctladdr=dave (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,     mailer=relay,
pri=30024, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred:
Permission denied


<--- usual suspects below ---->

telnet localhost 25:      220 secure01.epiphanet.com ESMTP Sendmail
8.12.8p1/8.12.8;

in master.passwd:     smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission
User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin

in /var/spool:
  drwxrwx---   2 smmsp   smmsp   1024 Apr  8 15:25 clientmqueue
  drwxr-xr-x   2 root    daemon   512 Apr  8 15:14 mqueue

in freebsd.submit.mc:
  VERSIONID(`$Id: submit.mc,v 8.9 2002/03/26 03:30:58 ca Exp $')
  define(`confCF_VERSION', `Submit')dnl
  define(`__OSTYPE__',`')dnl dirty hack to keep proto.m4 from complaining
  define(`_USE_DECNET_SYNTAX_', `1')dnl support DECnet
  define(`confTIME_ZONE', `USE_TZ')dnl
  FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl


secure01# ps -aux | grep sendmail
smmsp  35809  0.0  0.4  2928 1912  ??  Is    3:51PM   0:00.00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 00:30:00  for /var/spool/clientmqueue (se
root   35811  0.0  0.4  3052 1956  ??  Ss    3:51PM   0:00.09 sendmail:
accepting connections (sendmail)



any and all help appreciated!!


Dave Heller
epiadmin at epiphanet.com